Fugitive
['fjuːdʒɪtɪv] or ['fjudʒətɪv]
Definition
(noun.) someone who is sought by law officers; someone trying to elude justice.
(noun.) someone who flees from an uncongenial situation; 'fugitives from the sweatshops'.
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Definition
(a.) Fleeing from pursuit, danger, restraint, etc., escaping, from service, duty etc.; as, a fugitive solder; a fugitive slave; a fugitive debtor.
(a.) Not fixed; not durable; liable to disappear or fall away; volatile; uncertain; evanescent; liable to fade; -- applied to material and immaterial things; as, fugitive colors; a fugitive idea.
(n.) One who flees from pursuit, danger, restraint, service, duty, etc.; a deserter; as, a fugitive from justice.
(n.) Something hard to be caught or detained.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Fleeing, flying, escaping.[2]. Transitory, transient, evanescent, fleeting, flying, fugacious, flitting, passing, momentary, short, brief, temporal, ephemeral, short-lived.
n. Runaway, deserter.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See FUGACIOUS]
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Definition
adj. apt to flee away: uncertain: volatile: perishable: temporary: occasional written for some passing occasion.—n. one who flees or has fled from his station or country: one hard to be caught.—ns. Fū′gie (Scot.) a cock that will not fight a runaway; Fū′gie-warr′ant a warrant to apprehend a debtor about to abscond prob. from the phrase in meditatione fug; Fugitā′tion (Scots law) absconding from justice: outlawry.—adv. Fug′itively.—n. Fug′itiveness.
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Examples
- For the dog, I know it to be the cur of the runaway slave Gurth, a useless fugitive like its master. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- But the other fugitive struggled hard; the door was about to yield to his strength. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- He was only restored to comparative calmness by repeated assurances of the certainty of discovering the fugitive. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- A proscribed fugitive, with a price upon his head; a fester and a wound upon the noble character of the Coketown operative! Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- By what outlet had the fugitive taken wing? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- The Lord hath ordered it so that never hath a fugitive been stolen from our village. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- She lowered her eyes under his unseeing stare, and another fugitive flush passed over her face. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- The other fugitive, who was evidently in extreme horror of his companion, repeated, He tried to murder me. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Miss Sharp a fugitive! William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- At last the fugitive, hard-pressed, takes to a narrow passage and a court which has no thoroughfare. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- If he were not, he would be sure to see them inside; and, knowing what he had done with the fugitive, would proceed with discretion still. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- Xodar alone was care-free--a fugitive and outlaw, he could be no worse off in Helium than elsewhere. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Ah, my beloved readers and brethren, do not envy poor Becky prematurely--glory like this is said to be fugitive. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Her paleness turned to a fugitive flush. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- How evanescent, fugitive, fitful she looked--slim and swift as a northern streamer! Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- No trace could be found of the fugitives, and now, on Thursday morning, we are as ignorant as we were on Tuesday. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Tom, therefore, remained behind, with a few who had learned of him to pray, and offered up prayers for the escape of the fugitives. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- It remained now only for her to trace out the path of the fugitives. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- They dissolved into a vast multitude of fugitives streaming under great dust clouds and without a single rally across the hot plain towards Arbela. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Doubtless fugitives from the Tartars to the east also contributed to the Cossack mixture. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The city was filled with Union fugitives who had been driven by guerilla bands to take refuge with the National troops. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- By this time the enemy had recovered from their first terror, and, seeing the escape of the fugitives, came rushing down to the sea. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- As he met the fugitives he ordered them to turn back, reminding them that they were going the wrong way. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Even Sir Percival's solicitor has lost all hope, and has ordered the useless search after the fugitives to be finally given up. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- The Ottoman Turks were a little band of fugitives who fled southwesterly before the first invasion of Western Turkestan by Jengis. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- We shall hear something of the fugitives. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- The two fugitives glided noiselessly from the house, and flitted, through the gathering shadows of evening, along by the quarters. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Everywhere scattered fugitives, ragged, lean, and frost-bitten, spread the news of the disaster. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- When despairing African fugitives do the same thing,--it is--what _is_ it? Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- At the battle of Makri he had led the charge of cavalry, and pursued the fugitives even to the banks of the Hebrus. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
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